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fter the purchase of the Empress Hotel in March, the gift of the Paramount Theatre is the second major downtown landmark to be acquired by the City of Chilliwack this year. The eventual closing of the iconic Yale Road movie house was inevitable, but in a press release issued Thursday the city announced that the Paramount’s owners, Landmark Cinemas of Canada, had donated the building and the property to the city. “This is a boon to the City of Chilliwack that we have been able to have this building donated to us,” Mayor Sharon Gaetz told the Times Thursday. The city has no EB IRST plans to operate First reported on the movie theatre chilliwacktimes.com but will hold the property until a use can be determined. A downtown task force chaired by Coun. Ken Huttema will recommend a strategy and actions in early 2011, Gaetz said. “All I can say is we are incredibly thrilled and thank Landmark for the contribution and for providing entertainment since 1987,” she said. Wednesday was the last showing at the Paramount and the closure
wo Chilliwack men will serve federal sentences for their roles in the 2008 stabbing death of 19-year-old Cody Gottschalk at Cultus Lake. But for Gottschalk’s family the pain will continue. In handing down his sentence in Chilliwack Supreme Court on Tuesday, Justice Terence Schultes called the attack by Adam Phillips and Justin Lennard on Gottschalk and his friends “completely pointless and unreasonable.” Schultes handed Phillips a sentence of three years and one month—on top of time already served—for wielding the knife that killed Gottschalk and injured two other men, one gravely, on May 17, 2008. Lennard was sentenced to two years and one month in jail for starting the fight that precipitated the stabbings. On Monday, both men pleaded guilty to manslaughter and aggravated assault. Phillips also entered a guilty plea to assault causing bodily harm.
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